Panamá

The Province of Panama has an area of 11 thousand 887 km2, bordered on the north by the province of Colon, on the south by the Pacific Ocean on the east by the Shire Wargandi and Darien province, west of the province of Cocle. Panama is the province that accounts for at least 50% of people osea 1,500,000 inhabitants. 

Panama City has always been linked to human trafficking across the isthmus that narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific has attracted travelers from the Foundation of the City in 1519. However, not all passengers were friendly that it was among the pirate Henry Morgan and 1400 of his men looted and destroyed the original town in 1671, before going to wreak havoc in Jamaica.

The gold rush in California and Alaska in the mid-nineteenth century brought thousands of travelers to the area of Panama City, as the fortune-hunters rushed to reach those lands in search of riches, often illusory. Later, the construction of the Panama Canal brought thousands of workers and managers to the area. Today, the Panama Canal remains an important shipping point and trade. 

People who visit Panama City is an elegant mix of modern skyscrapers, and beautiful Spanish colonial architecture combined with a vitality tropical America. There are exclusive boutiques, with a reputation for the best prices in Latin America, a variety of ethnic restaurants and a very good level and bystanders with great style. In addition to Old Town, visitors can enjoy the Metropolitan National Park, a tropical forest of 265 acres within the city limits. Tourists and residents can take a hike through the jungle and marvel at the diverse plant and wildlife. Restaurants in Panama City and various delicious dishes served with beef, which competes with various ethnic foods from around the world. After sunset, city lights with the sounds of salsa and hard until late at night. 

The Panama Canal consists of two artificial lakes, Miraflores and Gatun, a series of artificial canals, and three sets of locks that ships gradually lowering the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific and vice versa. The trip through the Canal takes nine hours and an average of forty ships crossing the Canal each day. The canal can accommodate ships from sailing up the largest commercial ships, and ships are guided through the locks by small locomotives called "mules" who are on a path along the Canal. 

The History Channel. 

The Isthmus of Panama has always been a strategic place. The first Spanish explorers thought of building a canal in the middle of the 15th century. Later, during the gold rush in California and Alaska in the mid-19th century, they built a railway line along the isthmus. Eventually, it was Theodore Roosevelt, never afraid to embark on a big project, who committed the United States in 1904 to complete the construction of the canal. 

Construction of the canal. 

The French, under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps engineer, started the Panama Canal project in 1880. The French plan was to dig a sea level canal (without locks) but the building was impeded due to the harsh jungle conditions and diseases proliferate.The project was abandoned in 1889. By then, more than 22,000 French were killed in the jungles of Panama. 

By the time Americans began construction of the present Canal in 1904, the jungle had been partly cleared and had learned much about prevention and cure of yellow fever and malaria. Fewer Americans were killed during construction, but the Canal still claimed another 5700 lives before it opened in 1914. The water to fill the locks remained a problem for the canal, and in 1935, completed the dam to create Lake Gatun Alajuela, which is still a reservoir for the Canal.